“You’re relying on a reliable narrator to tell you that story,” Kelleher said.
She acknowledged that journalists must trust sources to accurately portray events and lives, particularly when writing obituaries. She said she was drawn to Pulido’s story from the start, seeing qualities in her that she had seen in other women in her life, women who made immeasurable sacrifices for the people they loved. She said she does not regret writing the initial obituary. And he likely knew he would be judged, harshly in many cases, but probably never as harshly as he judged himself
“How do you correct a story like that, that is just fundamentally wrong?” He may not have known where and how it would be told, but he knew during his lifetime that the truth would be revealed. Kelleher said it was not her intention to “denigrate” Tizon but to “correct the record,” she told The Washington Post Wednesday night. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
